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二、 You hear the refrain all the time: the U.S. economy looks good statistically, but it doesnt feel good. 你一直重复听到：美国的经济从数据上看很不错，但实际上并不觉得很好。 Why doesnt ever-greater wealth promote ever-greater happiness? 为什么不断增加的财富却没有促进不断提高的幸福程度呢? It is a question that dates at least to the appearance in 1958 of The Affluent Societyby John Kenneth Galbraith, who died recently at 97. 这个问题最早要追溯到1958年《富足社会》一书的出现，其作者John Kenneth Galbraith最近去世了，享年97岁。 The Affluent Society is a modern classic because it helped define a new moment in the human condition. 《富足社会》是一本现代名著，因为书中定义了人类境况的一个新时期。 For most of history, hunger, sickness, and cold threatened nearly everyone, Galbraith wrote. 在历史上的大多数时期，饥寒交迫和疾病几乎威胁了每一个人。Galbraith写道： Poverty was found everywhere in that world. Obviously it is not of ours. 贫穷出现在那个世界的任何角落。但这显然与我们无关 After World War II, the dread of another Great Depression gave way to an economic boom. In the 1930s unemployment had averaged 18.2 percent; in the 1950s it was 4.5 percent. | 
